Wrongfully Convicted News Today

Pamela Smart, her attorney and advocates hope the state Supreme Court will push the governor and Executive Council to hear out Smart’s arguments for her release from prison, but the

BALTIMORE — Maryland officials on Wednesday awarded more than $3 million to a Baltimore man who served 31 years in prison before he was exonerated, one of the largest payments under a 2021 law that reformed how the state compensates people who have been wrongfully convicted. Gary Washington, 63, met privately with Gov. Wes Moore and then watched silently as the three-member Maryland Board of ...

Here are some of the bills that passed and some of the big legislation that stalled this session

Rishi Sunak will unveil a scheme on Wednesday to exonerate wrongfully convicted sub-postmasters, as the Prime Minister said that “nothing can make up for what they’ve been through”.

Letting off guilty postmasters is a “price worth paying” for justice for innocent victims, the Post Office minister has said.

Darryl Burton served 24 years in the Missouri State Penitentiary for a murder he didn't commit. Now, he's releasing a memoir on his experience.

It wasn't until the Duke Law Innocence Project took on the case that it came to light that 43 fingerprints from the scene did not match Long's.

Glynn Simmons was exonerated after a 1975 conviction for a murder he did not commit.

A 30-year-old Chicago man who was wrongfully convicted of murder on the testimony of a blind witness walked out of jail this week as a free man.

Six prisoners released this week are part of a recent spike in exonerations.